WW1

Question 1

Emperor

Answer 1

• Doesn’t or isn’t obligated to listen to his populations wants/need
• Greatest purpose to build and grow their empire
• beleive they are god gift
• a spoiled brat

Question 2

Archduke

Answer 2

heir to the throne of the A-H

Question 3

Chancellor

Answer 3

appointed by the emperor (mostly in charge of negotiation) to run the country but really the emperor had the final say

Question 4

Prime Minister/Presidents

Answer 4

Had a goal, had to prove themselves, then stand for election (takes more courage and character then emperors)
- elected by pop.
- must listen to the ideas that will encourage pop to vote for THEM

Question 5

Chancellor of Germany WW1

Answer 5

Bismarck

Question 6

Kaiser (Emperor) of Germany WW1

Answer 6

Wilhelm II

Question 7

Emperor of A-H

Answer 7

Franz Joseph

Question 8

Tsar (emperor) of Russia

Answer 8

Nicholas II

Question 9

Countries with prime ministers/presidents

Answer 9

UK
USA
Italy
France

Question 10

State

deffinition + example

Answer 10

boarded territories with inc. 1 nation of ppl living in it
* france
* serbia
* belgium
* italy

Question 11

Empire

deffinition + example

Answer 11

boarded territories but multiple nations of ppl many languages, cultures (to collect and own more)
* A-H
* Ottoman
* British
* German

Question 12

Nation

deffinition + example

Answer 12

defined as nation if share a national identity (language, culture, ethnicity etc)
CAN be a group of ppl don’t have a country of their own live inside of these states/empires (angry ab it ,want to retaliate, ex: quebecois)
* serbs
* croatians
* poles

Question 13

Nationalism

Answer 13

• being proud of your own nations devotion and intrests.
• many nationalists beleive that nations of people should havbe the right to govern themselves (self dtermination)

Question 14

Creation of Germany

and how

german nationalism example

Answer 14

1871
* Bismarck manages to convince a buch of little kingdoms to regroup into germany to compete with brit. emp

Question 15

Military Men vs Civilians/Presidents in charge

Answer 15

• Military men= simple solution BOMB it, destruction
• Vs civilian in charge= approach the situation with different solution instead of straight to war

Question 16

Arms race

Answer 16

The competition between states to build up the greatest arsenal

Question 17

Naval Arms Race

Answer 17

• Britain has BIGGEST navy in world and germany tries to compete by building boats too
• but Wilhelm II has no where to put them, just wants to look cool, really dumb idea
• britian retaliates and creates more ships … cycle repeats LEADS TO ARM RACE IN EU

Question 18

Coloonialism

Answer 18

the practice of occupying other contries and keeping them dependent on the ruling country

Question 19

Imperialism

Answer 19

policy in which an empire or state dominates other contries politically and economically, either as colonies or by indirect means

Question 20

German colonialism

Answer 20

• Germany was trying to grow, older empires not like and restricted
• bc Wilhelm II was cry baby and so annoying people just gave him territories so he would shut up
• BALANCE OF POWER IS STRAINED
• ex: the race for africa

Question 21

france was not keen to share with germany this led too…

Answer 21

tensions between the two empires

Question 22

Secret Alliances before and after war

Answer 22

• Before: expected everyone was lying no one could be trusted
• After: made illegal

Question 23

Alliance

Answer 23

Open or secret agreement between states/empires to support and protect each other from enemies

Question 24

How did germany’s alliances fall apat

Answer 24

• Bismarck created all the alliances was trusted man
• Bismarck “retires”/fired (1890)
• alliances started to fall apart bc WII didnt follow up and no bismarck to clean up his mess

Question 25

Triple Entente

Answer 25

• France
• Russia
• Britain

Question 26

Triple Alliance

Answer 26

• Germany
• A-H
• Italy

Question 27

The Balkans

Answer 27

• Bulgaria
• Serbia

Question 28

Franz Ferdinand Life story

Answer 28

• born to privlige but still chose to be an intelectual and read/learn (unstereotypical)
• Morganatic mariage to Sofia with kids

Question 29

Assasination that triggered the War 1914

Answer 29

• FF in Bosnia
• In the open doing a speech or walking somthing
• Blackhand extremists scatter amungst crowd with bombs + guns
• MISSES kills other ppl
• Arch leaves but takes diff path
• BY COINCIDENCE Gavrilo(terrorist) = hungry goes to cafe, SEES ARCH and gets up to car shoots both Franz and Sofia

Question 30

Blackhand

Answer 30

Terrorist/revolutionist/ extremerist/radiacl nationlists: Serbians that wanted independance from bosnia (ALL under A-H empire)

all they want is freedom

Question 31

Why does austria declare war on serbia

Answer 31

• They assasinated their leader
• must have big consequences for for outrages act
• FJ overreacts on purpose, needs to show his wrath and power
• to show to not screw with A-H

Question 32

Consequences of austria declaration of war

Answer 32

1. germany supports A-H
2. A-H war with serbia
3. russia supports serbia
4. germany war with france just cause they allies with russia
5. germany war on belgium cause doesnt ally with them to let them pass
6. england supports belgium so war on germany
7. Seals the deal: UK + France declare war on A-H

Question 33

How it turns into a WW

Answer 33

reginal war –> european war –> World war
- countries bring colonies troups in to battle
- All these countries blindly accepted the system of alliances and the system of the balance of power without any regard for the consequences.